Franz Kafka in general

Franz Kafka was a genius. I first discovered the writer when my sister recommended him because she thought that the style of writing was "my kind of thing". I purchased a copy of "The Trial" from my local "Evil Empire" bookstore and read it during the lonely winter nights. I found "The Trial" to be possibly the best book I have ever read because it had such a profound effect on me. Here was a writer who created these paranoid and nightmarish visions but did not write in a long-winded way that most writers succumb to. "The Trial" is about a man who is arrested one day and never told his crime. The rest of the book ...

A man wakes up one morning to find himself changed into a huge insect. Another is arrested at dawn for an unnamed crime and dragged through an insane series of court appearances. A third man arrives in a village with the simple aim of entering the castle but finds his efforts thwarted at every turn. A fourth willingly throws himself into a river and drowns at his father’s command while a fifth allows himself to be strapped to a torture machine and is killed by a device that inscribes his punishment upon his back. Welcome to the world of Franz Kafka. Kafka was born in 1883 and lived in Prague when it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. As a ...